---
title: "Overcoming RESTlessness and hunting for new servers"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 203
published_at: "2019-02-13"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/203"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#203 — February 13, 2019 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/203)   

Web Operations Weekly 

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[Server Hunter: A Tool to Browse the VPS and Dedicated Server Marketplace](https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=163-2D1-50C) — An interesting new site that brings together information on over 10,000 different VPS and dedicated server offerings, all the way down to NAT-only VPSes at pennies per month. 

Server Hunter   

[Overcoming RESTlessness](https://www.infoq.com/articles/overcoming-restlessness) — Have you, too, sensed a slight anti-REST sentiment out there? Newer protocols like GraphQL, gRPC and Kafka are chipping away at common REST use cases, but rather than just replacing REST, Matt McLarty argues we should evolve by building on top of REST’s mature ecosystem. 

Matt McLarty   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/5c489338.png)](https://www.gremlin.com/chaos-monkey/?utm_medium=cpm&utm_source=WebOpsWeekly&utm_content=20190213&utm_campaign=2019_Cooperpress) 

[The Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers: Tips, Tutorials & Training](https://www.gremlin.com/chaos-monkey/?utm_medium=cpm&utm_source=WebOpsWeekly&utm_content=20190213&utm_campaign=2019_Cooperpress) — This guide is a full how-to for Chaos Monkey, including what it is, its pros and cons, and how it relates to Chaos Engineering broadly. It includes tutorials for getting started along with tips and guides for those looking to go beyond the basics. 

Gremlin sponsor   

[Make Your Site’s Pages 'Instant' in 1 Minute](https://instant.page/) — This is a neat little project, and surprisingly simple. Include a small piece of JavaScript on your page to add [just-in-time prefetching of links on your site](https://addyosmani.com/blog/prefetching/) when people hover over where they intend to go next. The [Hacker News discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122727) this project provoked is also quite interesting. 

Alexandre Dieulot   

[AresDB: Uber’s Go and GPU-Powered Real-Time Analytics Engine](https://eng.uber.com/aresdb/) — Uber has built a pretty significant project using Go and CUDA which uses GPUs to enable real-time computation and data processing in parallel. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/uber/aresdb) 

Jian Shen, Ze Wang, David Wang, Jeremy Shi, and Steven Chen   

[Develop and Test AWS Step Functions Workflows Locally](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/develop-and-test-aws-step-functions-workflows-locally/) — You can now use a local version of AWS Step Functions (called AWS Step Functions _Local_) to develop/test your workflows - it’s available as a JAR package or a Docker image. 

Amazon Web Services   

[Facebook Expands Support for Let’s Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/2019/02/12/facebook-expands-support-for-letsencrypt.html) — The world’s leading certificate authority has just got a serious 3 year sponsorship commitment from Facebook who note 38% of HTTPS domains they observe use Let’s Encrypt. 

Let's Encrypt  

💻 Jobs  

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📘 Tutorials  

[Principled GraphQL: Ten Principles for GraphQL Use](https://principledgraphql.com/) — Inspired by the [Twelve Factor App](https://12factor.net/), Apollo lays out ten principles for building better GraphQL-oriented systems. 

Apollo   

[Dissecting Kubernetes: An Intro to Its Main Components](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/kubernetes-yaml) — A 46 minute talk complete with a handy diagram and demos. 

Joshua Sheppard   

[Share Your Whole Stack with Your Team, on Any Cloud, with One Workflow 🤯](https://blog.manifold.co/manifold-for-teams-share-your-whole-stack-on-any-cloud-with-one-workflow-2386a5779a37?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_campaign=WebOpsWeekly&utm_content=Feb13) 

Manifold sponsor   

[Bandwidth or Latency? When to Optimise for Which](https://csswizardry.com/2019/01/bandwidth-or-latency-when-to-optimise-which/) — A simple way to quickly and roughly work out whether your assets would benefit most from an increase in bandwidth or a reduction in latency. 

Harry Roberts   

[Understanding API-Based Platforms: A Guide For Product Managers](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/01/api-based-platforms-product-managers/) 

Smashing Magazine   

[Tips for Running Free Dynos on Heroku in 2019](https://railsautoscale.com/heroku-free-dynos) — The somewhat convoluted rules around running stuff for free on Heroku. The short answer is free Heroku is for side projects and non-production environments. 

Adam McCrea  

💬 Stories & Opinions  

[Building Stable Systems with Load-Test Driven Development](https://tech.just-eat.com/2019/01/28/ltdd/) — Developers at one of the world’s biggest food ordering services show off how they use ‘load-test driven development’ while building their systems from a performance-first standpoint. 

Just Eat   

[Using Docker and Kubernetes in High Security Environments](https://medium.com/@chrismessiah/docker-and-kubernetes-in-high-security-environments-d851645e8b99) 

Christian Abdelmassih   

[Correlate Request Traces, Infrastructure Metrics, and Logs. Try Datadog Free](https://www.datadoghq.com/lpg/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-WebOpsWeeklyB) 

Datadog sponsor   

[New Relic, SignifAI and the Shifting View of Monitoring Technologies](https://thenewstack.io/new-relic-signifai-and-the-shifting-view-of-monitoring-technologies/) — Monitoring tool providers are integrating machine intelligence and AI into their services to better inform devops folks and SREs about the state of their systems. 

Alex Williams   

[How PagerDuty Developed Its Postmortem Best Practices](https://thenewstack.io/how-pagerduty-developed-its-postmortem-best-practices/) — We linked to PagerDuty’s recently opened [incident response documents](https://response.pagerduty.com/) a few issues ago, but now you can learn just _how_ they came up with them. 

Rachael Byrne   

▶[Discussing Making WordPress Faster with Patrick Meenan](https://webmasterradio.fm/episode/making-wordpress-faster-with-webpagetest-org-founder-patrick-meenan-of-cloudflare) — A chat with Patrick Meenan of Cloudflare and founder of [WebPageTest.org](http://webpagetest.org/) about making WordPress faster and technologies Cloudflare has been working on to help. 

Webmaster Radio     

📣 And some vendor-y related news items  

[Linode Introduces Dedicated CPU Instances](https://blog.linode.com/2019/02/05/introducing-linode-dedicated-cpu-instances/) — Still VPSes but you can get CPU cores dedicatedly solely for your instance at around a 50% premium. 
Linode   

[What’s Coming Next on DigitalOcean in 2019](https://blog.digitalocean.com/whats-new-for-2019/) — DO looks set to get into managed databases, extend its Kubernetes product, and roll out new droplet types. 
DigitalOcean   

[AWS Now Supports TLS Termination on Network Load Balancers](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tls-termination-for-network-load-balancers/) — Benefits include AWS taking care of all those zero-day TLS-related patches, improved compliance, and simplified management. 
Jeff Barr (Amazon)   

[Netlify Adds Akismet-Powered Spam Filtering to Its Users' Forms](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/02/12/improved-netlify-forms-spam-filtering-using-akismet/) 
Netlify   

[StackPath Introduces Containers and Virtual Machines 'at the Edge'](https://blog.stackpath.com/introducing-containers-and-virtual-machines-at-the-edge) — A fully managed environment offering low latency execution of complex logic as close to your end users as possible. 
David Mytton           

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